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2026 North Carolina Senate race
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403 DAYS
12 FACTS
4 EVENTS
1 SOURCES
FIRST ENTRY JUL 30
SEP 05 · Day 403
North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate adds former Bloods gang member to criminal justice task force
Prosecutors identified Pittman as a ranking member of the Bloods during a murder trial for Bloods member Michael Contrez Jones.
Cooper tapped then-state attorney general Josh Stein to lead the task force.
Pittman was convicted in a 2006 drive-by-shooting of 19-year-old Jamel Amiens Jeffreys.
“While Roy spent his career putting rapists and violent criminals behind bars and signing tough-on-crime laws as governor, Michael Whatley spent his appointing a convicted child sex predator who served six years in prison and spent over a decade as a registered sex offender to a top role within the North Carolina Republican Party that gave him access to events with children,”
COOPER CAMPAIGN
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MAR 03 · Day 217
North Carolina primary sets up Cooper vs Whatley Senate race
JUL 31 · Day 2
RNC's Michael Whatley launches North Carolina Senate bid
JUL 30 · Day 1